Well, I was a feeling a bit ambitious today, so I did some work. I decided to strip the paint off the tunnel and polish it. I couldn't have my trail sled looking better than the new race sled! So, I just had to polish the tunnel. I picked up some new paint stripper, which worked amazing. Nearly all of the paint was off with the first coat. I gave it a quick once-over with some mothers hand aluminum cleaner/polish, but it is not nearly good enough for my liking, so I'll attack it with some compound and a buffing wheel tomorrow possibly.
That's all I did with the race sled today. Most of my work was on the trail sled build (old race chassis in my avatar). I brought the front suspension back up to stock ride height and threw in some stock Ohlins with black powdercoated springs. I installed the handlebars and pad, and I also pulled the track and suspension out of it, and put it back to my "trail" settings. I have to pick up some old, thin, Vmax sliders tomorrow, and cut down an older Camoplast 9791 track that I have laying around to 14" wide, then I can throw it back together. In case you're wondering, I am cutting it down for 2 reasons......to cut off some weight
, and because it has a few lugs cut at the very ends, so I'll cut out that 1/2" that's slightly (and I mean slightly) damaged, and have to get it resealed by a local rubber company.
I will be (well, my wife will be actually) running the trail sled this year in the 800 Improved Trail class, since it is going to have a fairly well ported 780 pump gas motor (cases and cylinders), 40.5mm mach Z carbs, and stock pipes. I figure it should be good for about 125 mph in 2000', with 96 trail studs, at stock ride height. I'll get some pictures of this build up here as well......or I guess I should call it a re-build.
